Bit of fert on some paddocks

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A friend has asked me to sort some fert for a small area of grazing. It's only about 3.5acres and too small for my day to day fert options.
All pretty short of P&K from the soil tests but think it needs a few other bits to help it along.
Anyone deal with suppliers doing small quantities? I know Hutchinsons have an amenity side to their business but anyone else?
Land is in Kent.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

At LAMMA last week I met a chap I’ve not seen for a few years, his name is Steve but I’m buggered if I can remember his surname now. He has a spreading business in Kent and has recently got into small kit and small jobs in the orchards.


This may ring a bell with somebody from Kent. He was a lime rep but then went on his own and has recently also taken over a small fert supply business.

His brother runs a similar business in Hertfordshire.

Sorry I can’t be more specific.

 

[Sharpy]

A friend has asked me to sort some fert for a small area of grazing. It's only about 3.5acres and too small for my day to day fert options.
All pretty short of P&K from the soil tests but think it needs a few other bits to help it along.
Anyone deal with suppliers doing small quantities? I know Hutchinsons have an amenity side to their business but anyone else?
Land is in Kent.

Origin do small bags, your other option may be your local equine supply place.

 

[Mounty]

I know exactly who you mean @Cab-over Pete

 

[dickspanner]

At LAMMA last week I met a chap I’ve not seen for a few years, his name is Steve but I’m buggered if I can remember his surname now. He has a spreading business in Kent and has recently got into small kit and small jobs in the orchards.


This may ring a bell with somebody from Kent. He was a lime rep but then went on his own and has recently also taken over a small fert supply business.

His brother runs a similar business in Hertfordshire.

Sorry I can’t be more specific.

Steve Pack?

 

[Mounty]

Yes

 

[Cab-over Pete]

That’s him I think.

I don’t know much about his business but he seems a very decent chap. I just remember him telling me he’s invested in some small kit for orchard work so may suit your friends job.

 

[Ali_Maxxum]

Not someone local spin a bit on for some monies? Rather than getting a 'specialist' to bumble round on a compact tractor, even 3.5ac is big for one of them.

I was lucky last year I had a load of smaller, mainly horsey paddocks all within about a mile radius, so I managed to work it so I could get half a dozen bags and some granulated lime and run around the lot in a couple of hours. Must have been a whopping total of 8 acres.....

 

[Mounty]

Thats how it will go on in the end but I'm just trying to source fert in small quantities at the moment.

 

[BFSfertilisers]

A friend has asked me to sort some fert for a small area of grazing. It's only about 3.5acres and too small for my day to day fert options.
All pretty short of P&K from the soil tests but think it needs a few other bits to help it along.
Anyone deal with suppliers doing small quantities? I know Hutchinsons have an amenity side to their business but anyone else?
Land is in Kent.

We have a couple of pallets of Yara Paddock Royale in 25 kg bags we sell to local smallholders and horse paddock owners. Its a balanced 12-11-18 plus Mg and SO3, plus some trace elements. Available to collect South Essex if you can't get any locally.

 

[Mounty]

Thanks, thats useful to know.